Training Day on the Cowen Extractor - July 31, 2020

[@scottbayles3407]

The more I watch your operation, the more I love my one little hive. 🐝👏🏼

[@mikes1345]

I had a couple of questions but you answered them in your comment responses. It was funny watching the old man keeping the truck stacker busy. He doesn't know all your tricks yet to keep up. Thanks

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

That old man was me lol

[@crash11235]

Nice to watch you teaching the kids how to do everything. Apprenticeships are a very undervalued form of education. Keep it up!

[@Bri_bees]

I love the elbow to stop drip's simple and ingenious.

[@flyingpigpreserve8562]

Love watching your operation! You have it down. Great watching no Son follow in your footsteps. Peace

[@jimmcdougall3750]

Your setup is amazing. You have good crew, Kerrie is a brilliant all rounder you would be stuck without her Ian

[@cliffordallan1393]

She’s great! However no business is ever dependent on one person..!

[@dianeluke1746]

I loved learning how to use the extractor with your son as my teacher, and you as the “voice of experience” in the background. It’s fun to learn how machines operate. I knew the general motions from watching your videos, but now I understand the levers, crank, brake, etc...I’m ready to head for Canada and become part of your crew! 😊 🐝🐝🐝

[@claudesully]

Get in the back of the line....

[@kennethmullen7183]

Hi. I just want to say, another great and awesome video. You have huge operation going and to take the time to video it...thank you thank you. I also want to say best wishes to the young guy you were training...he looked like he was catching on quick. I so much enjoy your videos and your channel...you have 1 of the best in bee keeping and again I thank you and thumbs up. Take care.

[@popquizzz]

This is starting to look like a better honey year than last year. Maybe that new EZ-Lift will be in the cards after all.

[@steveluepke9654]

Fascinating operation. I love watching it

[@devanil6721]

Hello, I'm Brazilian from Minas Gerais, I watch your entire video, I shouldn't even be considered a beekeeper because I only have 40 swarms, I learn a lot from You, who knows, maybe I'll help you one day, work for you, I love messing with bees. A big hug, congratulations on your work. I hope the translation came out right.

[@SRW1955]

Gotta love it when a plan comes together !

[@stackingforfun9216]

Did pull on 2 yards yesterday and best hive gave two boxes and I will get a 3rd before building for wintering nest building . I don’t get many hives that yield about 150 pounds . Best honey pull off that yard ever but bee foraging crop on blooms has paid off on cpr land and looking to do the same with waisted in used land at other yard . This years experiment shows plant crop for bees and rewards are in the honey.

[@mattsara2802]

Sweet set up you got it dialed in. 🍯🍯

[@KevinsNorthernExposure]

I do not miss the honey house from my brief time doing it......so rote......but your operation is a little better oriented (which leads to less physical) and you also carry a lot more help. Good honey crop.

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Honey house is a good change up from the yard, and the yard is a good change up from the honey house lol

[@gatechcoltd4973]

absolute amazing process would love to rich this scale of harvesting

[@cleberguimaraes3090]

Wonderful Job! Congratulations!

[@eddevault4604]

Cha-Ching....and the wheels keep turning....tell that guy on the truck they make a tool for that problem....it’s called a belt....love you guys....and gals....

[@WordsPhotos]

such an efficient crew.

[@joaorobertohespporte9492]

Boa noite, achei muito bom os seus vídeos apesar de não falar seu idioma dá pra entender o seu trabalho, que com certeza é muito puxado nesta época do ano

[@richardkuhn8115]

Great video. Michael is getting the hang of it. A couple more hours and he'll be running like a well oiled machine. How come Carrie gets to work the place of two men? She is a HARD WORKER!! You have Great assets! Thanks for sharing. Blessings to you and your family.

[@ThatBeeMan]

I may be copying that window idea. The bees in my honey house are always a problem.

[@HaUsSssss]

I put up bug zappers overnight after pulling honey. Hate to kill the stragglers but there's usually not too many, just enough to be a nuisance. I'm putting up a new honey house, it's going to have windows lol

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Bug zappers certainly helps with wasps

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Brad, I’ve come to the conclusion that a simple window, that I sweep regularly is the easiest and most effective method of clearing bees. I’ve tried elaborate escapes, tunnels, lures, hives etc... nothing works like a backwards window and a brush lol

[@ThatBeeMan]

@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog I may just order up a window next week! Thanks!

[@luizantonioaraujodasilva2616]

good morning everyone beekeeper

[@daviddowen3887]

That's cheating! We had an automatic hot knife extractor and two 96 frame radials on my Dad's operation, but everything in between was moving frames by hand. That's a really sweet setup! Your crew is "lucky", ha ha! I can sympathize with your son. He's lucky to be getting the education you are giving him. Very few in this world will get the experiences you are giving him.

[@andrelacombe2131]

I gest I will be growing canola for my bees next year 😃🐝🐝🐝

[@devanil6721]

Olá sou Brasileiro de Minas Gerais, assisto todo seu vídeo, nem devo ser considerado um apicultor pois tenho somente 40 enxames, aprendo muito com Você, quem sabe vou te ajudar um dia, trabalhar para você, amo mexer com abelhas. Um grande abraço, parabéns pelo seu trabalho.

[@ChrisStones144]

Goodday Ian, could you show the processes in cleaning the extracting equipment after harvest and how you salvage all that honey in the pipe system used, sumps, pipes, I could imagine hundreds of dollars in honey sitting in the system.

[@GOAP68]

6:52 Saw an overhead rail for boxes in a video a while back that gravity feed from the deboxer past the extractor. Can't find the clip now. Would save a lot of steps and eliminate the need for a walking path in that area.

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Looking at that for sure

[@tifreire1]

I think I saw that in a video of mobile extracting set up that was all in an enclosed trailer. I'll try to find it.

[@tifreire1]

At about 0:50 kzbin.info/www/bejne/lYLKhZisrc-Mrqs

[@GOAP68]

a Canadian Beekeeper’s Blog here's the one I was thinking of. Similar to your 60 frame decapper/extractor line kzbin.info/www/bejne/raG4cnSGlqt8r5o. Appears a standard item from Cowen Mfg for ~$4,500. Stainless is expensive. There's also this video that shows a floor level gravity feed roller. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rZKxk4J-grifeJY

[@RaySarasin]

He took to it like a duck to water lol Its been 30 here the last week after 2 weeks of rain

[@gibbsadventures12]

Have you ever thought of running an afternoon shift to try and keep up with the demand for empty boxes? I hear how you always discuss the need for enough empty boxes to capture the flow on the tight schedule.

[@ke6gwf]

I think he said getting another crew trained to be able to run the equipment, and finding that many more people, is not a simple thing out there

[@carriemartindale-wetherup5243]

Honey house runs 8-5

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

24 hr operation lol So many dynamics are involved with managing a business, workload, getting the job done, keeping ahead of the work, the cost of help, the cost of getting behind, the cost of equipment and facility. I think we are nicely balanced. Busy enough to be busy and not behind

[@ke6gwf]

@@carriemartindale-wetherup5243 the REAL reason Ian only runs one shift in the Honey House... He only has one Carrie to keep it running smoothly! I don't want to think about where he would be without you Carrie lol

[@alihussainalihussain4190]

Good luck

[@JamesCrouchX]

I am down with the mask in the honey room regardless of any other consideration: I have slight allergy in the warmer weather. Drip, drip, drip...

[@AWoodworkersLife]

You may have already thought of this. I was just thinking back to the fire you had the other day, and the application of the hydraulic power pack. I know with high torque DC winch motors over-frequent starting and stopping of the motor can cause increased heat issues in a hurry. I wonder if the nature of how the power pack is being used (short bursts) overheated the motor to the point that the brush springs relaxed, failed to make sufficient contact, and arced, creating more heat and eventually a fire. I’m not sure what the end solution is, but if a brushless motor is an option it might be worth the investment.

[@larrytornetta9764]

Day one I would forget a step and my fingers would be extracted.

[@HaUsSssss]

I wonder if we can get Phil Swift to pitch your honey farm weight loss program

[@larrytornetta9764]

Everybody has to go to the bathroom at the same time.

[@normabroussard9560]

Y’all are rolling

[@DBarnim]

Ian could you do a video on how you clean the honey house dealing with the stickiness of honey and waxy beeswax?

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

👍

[@steveluepke9654]

About how many lbs of honey comes out of the combs on each cycle?

[@jerrydegroot1573]

Great to see the family involved! How long does your extractor spin?

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

8 min cycle , or until the conveyor is full

[@JakeBeesos]

I'm not first. But I'm here

[@virginiesainte847]

Bonjour je voudrais savoir combien d annees il vous a fallu pour creer votre entreprise car je trouve formidable le potentielle de travail que vous avez avec combien de ruches avez vous demarrer pour la premiere annee je vous remercie de votre reponse je vis en france et je veux devenir apiculteur pro et finir ma vie avec les abeilles un grand merci pat

[@atriciaursine541]

Preciso de um jaleco deste

[@virginiesainte847]

Hello i would like to know how many years it took you to start your business because I find the potential of work that you have great how many beehives did you start with for the first year? Thank you for your reply I live in France and I want to become a professional beekeeper and end my life with bees a big thank-you pat

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJeagZaVg890itE

[@TheFarmacySeedsNetwork]

Wow.. just awesome to watch and see. Those pallets around 4000 lbs of honey? is that right?

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Let’s say a box averages 60-65 lbs, 36 boxes to a pallet. 35-40 lbs per box ave is pretty good.

[@TheFarmacySeedsNetwork]

@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog ok good.. I low-balled boxes at 60 ea and counted 36... so I was close there.. could be close to 5k pounds on the forklift. Man that is a LOT of honey to a small guy like me! lol

[@goodne1738]

Muito 🍯🐝💯🇧🇷👍

[@andywhite9932]

So you got ez loader back up and running again? Looks like you almost tipped a load off one hive. Lol. Do you have air conditioning in honey house?

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

No air conditioning but thinking of it

[@tonytango6676]

Do you have the time in summer to use the boat? Smile

[@garyholmes5362]

Approxhow many 45 gal drums do you fill in first harvest

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Fingers crossed

[@gregmonaghan]

Why not install bee escapes at the top of the windows to let the bees out?

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Wasps know how to use cones both ways

[@vietcuong8761]

Tuyệt vời quá.

[@ryanbee480]

What are the sizes of your frames Sir?

[@jakar1000]

🌹🤚

[@dogalarclk1541]

🇹🇷🇹🇷👍

[@christofboehm1638]

Where do you pur the empty boxes and frames after the extraction, since they are not taken to hives at once ?

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Stacked in the hot room for storage until we take them out again or put them into trailers for storage

[@3Beehivesto300]

How much weight on a full truck?

[@JamesCrouchX]

What about bee escapes on the windows?

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Wasps know how to use cones both ways

[@JamesCrouchX]

@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog Good to know! Yikes.

[@temettuavcs1582]

Hello Turkey

[@zongshunliang9928]

03:49😂lol

[@serpentelevate9119]

At 10:35 there are some Boxes taped together with red tape. Why did you do that?

[@sunshaker01]

Probably one of them is damaged leaving a spot the bees or pests can get through, which would cause problems when extracting.

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Crack in the box Gotta plug holes otherwise bees will take their honey back

[@dennisjcrews]

The wife has been worried about you saying for weeks "he is losing too much weight" please take time and eat so she can quit worrying about you!!

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Ha, ! That’s exactly it, I forget to eat

[@goldenbergconstruction1656]

At 18:43 what is the tapping on the screens for?

[@carriemartindale-wetherup5243]

To knock the bees off

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Can’t help myself, it’s an addiction

[@plainsimple442]

how many frames in a honey super?

[@eem8039]

Ten or nine i guess In suppers nine because they give more space for honey but in the first box where is the queen and the brood are ten

[@serpentelevate9119]

If I remember correctly, he uses 9 frames. This is so that the comb is a bit thicker and the decapping machine can be more efficient.

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Exactly